Alexis Boylan

Alexis L. Boylan is the associate director of the Humanities Institute at the University of Connecticut and an associate professor of art history and women’s, gender, and sexuality studies. Her new book, Ashcan Art, Whiteness, and the Unspectacular Man, was published earlier this year.

George W. Bush is selling veterans. His book of paintings, Portraits of Courage: A Commander in Chief’s Tribute to America’s Warriors, is not, by his account, an apology or expression of guilt. In an ...